某欧洲公司老板马塞罗乘直升机在撒哈拉沙漠上勘探矿藏时发生意外事故,机毁人亡,只有马塞罗的幼儿幸存,埃米尔酋长塔福德收养了孩子给他起名叫本,并把本作为继承人。25年后本长大成,成为一个英勇骑士。险恶的杜拜和酋长的女儿阿米娜订了婚,但阿米娜却深爱上本。在本的追问下,酋长夫人说出了他的身世,本知道真相后接受了阿米娜的爱,杜拜制造假象,谎称本偷走了酋长的全部宝石,酋长一气之下取消了本的继承权,本在大城市中结识了一个朋友,此人帮他查到25年前事故 的线索,本得知母亲克里斯蒂娜在蒙特卡洛是公司总裁,本设法见到了母亲,此时母亲早已和公司成员弗朗索瓦结婚。A helicopter crashes in the Sahara Desert. The entire crew are killed - only a small infant miraculously survives. Emir Tafud, who has no children of his own, brings the child up as his successor. When Ben is 25 years old he decides to set off in search of his true parents. In Casablanca he meets French crook Jacquot, who takes him with him to Monte Carlo. They both actually manage to find Ben's mother Christine. She tells Ben that his father was a scientist on a secret mission to Africa. Christine wants Ben to stay in Monte Carlo and take over her firm, but Ben has his heart set on living in Belem with his adored Amina. But now Ben gradually unearths a dreadful secret: Christine's second husband François was responsible for the death of his father, who had discovered valuable minerals in the Sahara. After a bitter struggle, Ben finally succeeds in saving his homeland from Western greed.